Visit to Forest Green Rovers’ New Lawn Football Stadium

On Wednesday morning, Ospreys met at the home ground of Forest Green Rovers FC, the smallest club in the English football league, and the world’s greenest football club. We started the day by sharing ideas about what makes Forest Green unique. We talked about the history of the team and the club’s commitment to sustainability under the current owner. We also watched some news reports about the club, and interviews with the club owner, Dale Vince, the manager and some of the players. We then learned about the club’s commitment to vegan food and use of environmentally friendly materials, such as the organic football pitch and bio-degradable goal nets, as the use of solar powered floodlights and robot lawn mower, recycled rainwater, and electric car charging points. Ospreys then learned about what a completely vegan diet means, and tried some vegan milk, before limbering up to practice some football skills in some games together. After lunch we learned about the plans to build a new stadium, using environmentally friendly materials, and pupils were invited to think of a name for the new home for the club. Pupils then teamed up to build a model of the stadium from recycled scrap materials. Finally, we were taken for a tour of the ground, visiting the corporate hospitality suites, media room, and players’ fitness gym. We then all thanked our guide, Jenny, for a really interesting, memorable and fun day!

Ospreys’ Play: Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes Jack and the Beanstalk

After weeks of rehearsal and lots of hard work learning our script and stage positions, the time finally came for Ospreys to perform their class play to a hall packed full of people. Everyone has been really committed to making our play the best it could be, and everyone had learned their lines well before the rehearsal. All the hard work paid off and the performances went very well indeed. Thankyou again to all the parents who helped with costumes and face paints.

Literacy, Computing and Art: The Legend of the Sword in the Stone

Ospreys this week finished off their water colour pictures of King Arthur’s sword, and the sword Kenning poems, written in Literacy, were typed up in our Computing session, using Word on the laptops. We printed off the completed poems and stuck them onto the paintings to create posters for display outside Ospreys classrooms. But, be warned: a sword is a fearsome medieval weapon of war, and the poems describe what they might be used for in gruesome detail!

Science: Rocks, Fossils and Soil

In our Science this week it was time to carefully bring our soil investigation jars in from the balcony into the classroom, to observe how the different components of our soil samples had settled into different layers over the last three weeks. Pupils made observations of what they could see in their samples, listing these, and them categorising them into living (organic) material and things that had never been alive. Children saw that heavier components, such as stones, mud and sand formed layers on the bottom of the jar, while organic material, such as grass, sticks and seeds, had floated to the top. Ospreys then drew a diagram of their sample, labelling the different layers they had observed.